I haven't watched the first two seasons but decided I would give this a go. I love watching intelligent shows like Sherlock, GoT, Hannibal, ones that really make you speculate.

But with Twin Peaks I'm getting more confused the longer I watch it. I downloaded like 7 or 8 episodes so I really want to give it a go, but I think I will have to stop after S3E02 and watch the first 2 seasons first.

And that talking or screaming tree really freaked me out, what's up with that thing?!?

I'm very curious, so I will start from the beginning.

Enjoy the show.

You need to have watched the earlier seasons to be able to 'understand' it really, there's a lot of linkages which are indecipherable otherwise. I can't even imagine what it's like trying to watch series 3 in isolation.

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The tree is actually an evolution of 'the arm' which is the same character as the dancing dwarf and is a manifestation of an evil, possessed arm which was severed by its original owner to relieve him from possession. You couldn't know this without watching the earlier seasons + the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

New season is so good and sooooooooooooo sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo weird

what the hell was up with the nuclear hobos

wwhat even was that episode

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I thought that episode was beautiful and reminded me of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the entire series is like an epic 18 episode film. What I took from it is that they represent the evil which was cast upon the Earth when we unleashed the power of nuclear weapons, perhaps they're the ghosts of the areas where the bombs were tested. That part is completely new and doesn't come from any earlier seasons so it's difficult to know for sure what it means.

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I LOVE this. When I said 'inside', I was thinking one of those stereotypical European closets lol

Not sure what you mean by European closets? In Britain just about every house has a traditional shrubbery pantry where we grow plants like herbs, small vegetables and such things and is also where we tend to keep small pets like hamsters, rabbits and haggises but I don't know what they do in the rest of Europe.

That's actually amazing! Never saw that house.

The entire street is actually pretty interesting, all of the houses are unique and designed by different architects. Worth a wander over there if you're interested in architecture.

Never done it personally, probably mostly due to growing up at a time when phones barely had internet connections, had the screen resolution of a potato and it cost a week's wages to send an MMS. I also struggle to see how anybody would find dick pics attractive at all... One could dress it up as some kind of woodland creature I suppose. Or perhaps create a jaunty hat for it. Hmm.

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Lemon and sugar is the acceptable pancake topping on pancake day and I'm not sure that works on american pancakes... @Waser Lave, please advise, you're so northern that you do things different

In the north we do everything, waffles, pancakes, drop scones and crepes (they're all essentially the same recipe but cooked in a different way, you could also throw Yorkshire pudding in there if you really wanted). Many people bastardise them with stupid toppings which aren't lemon and sugar and those people should be thoroughly shunned and possibly publicly flogged though I am partial to blueberry syrup on occasion but I usually save that for blueberry dumplings. As for drop scones, they're similar to the scotch pancakes you can buy in shops but not as sweet or light, essentially just small pancakes but cooked on a griddle (or girdle as they're called up here) which is a big heavy, flat pan rather than a regular frying pan. Pretty sure 'scone' is just Scottish for cake or something as in 'tattie scone' which is cooked in the same way, people from Scotland are weird.

I wonder if people asked the same questions about the Special Olympics. I understand that it's infeasible, but what would your alternative be?

I imagine there are a lot more disabled people (especially with all the veterans from recent wars) than there are people who are sufficiently intersexed to warrant being in their own category (i.e. far enough from 99% of female competitors to have an advantage and far enough from male competitors to be disadvantaged). I already gave an alternative, a handicap system based on testosterone levels (since we don't have any better measure currently) whereby the higher your testosterone level the greater your handicap and that way you'd have a more even playing field and intersex athletes could continue competing within the existing male/female groupings.

So because it doesn't apply to the masses it's too bad so sad for the people who would benefit from it?

How many people in the world would be classed as intersex? How many of those people are interested in sport? How many of those people want to dedicate their lives to sport full time? You're not left with a lot of potential competitors after you whittle them down...and that's before you get to considering who would actually want to watch it or fund it. A laudable but impractical aim I reckon.